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Guest Post by John Pym: A Soviet film of ‘The Lady with the Little Dog’

Nineteen-sixty – with the first movies of the French ‘New Wave’ about to burst upon the cinemagoing world – proved a golden year for the Cannes film festival. The jury included the leading Russian director Grigori Kozintsev and the iconoclastic … Continue reading

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‘Lady with a Little Dog’ (Continued)

III Back home in Moscow, everything already felt like winter: the stoves had been lit, and when the children were getting ready for school and drinking tea in the morning, it was dark and Nanny lit the lamp for a … Continue reading

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‘Lady with a Little Dog’ translated by Harvey Pitcher

I Word went round that a newcomer had turned up on the Promenade: a lady with a little dog. Dmitrii Dmitrich Gurov had already spent a fortnight in Yalta and become used to its ways, and he too had begun … Continue reading

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Lady with little dog/Gamekeeper with spaniel

  Our guest posts on Women in Love opened an admirable exchange of Comments about all sorts of aspects of Lawrence’s work. I think there was a feeling, however, that we were left with an elephant in the room: Lady … Continue reading

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